Reviews tagging 'Violence'

Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima

14 reviews

sleepyriv's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Blood, War, Body horror, and Violence

Moderate: Cannibalism, Suicidal thoughts, and Chronic illness

sarafranzese's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Violence

nerdkitten's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, and War

Moderate: Cannibalism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Blood, Classism, and Death

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Colonisation, Infidelity, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Racism, Sexism, Suicide, Terminal illness, Gore, Violence, Xenophobia, Death of parent, and Pedophilia

yutrobog's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

this man manages to be a more pathetic gay pervert than me

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

Moderate: War, Torture, Violence, Blood, and Body horror

Minor: Cannibalism and Chronic illness

deadlizard's review

challenging dark reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Cannibalism, Suicidal thoughts, Chronic illness, War, Violence, Blood, and Gore

strrygo's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

this took me a while to get through! not because i didn't enjoy reading it, but because it was just honest in a way that made me feel almost guilty for not giving it my undivided attention. mishima makes it hard to ever step away even when u've put the book down.
tucking my heart into the pages, alongside the one there now, until i'm ready to share in this ache again

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: War, Suicidal thoughts, and Homophobia

catandherbooks's review against another edition

dark reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Death, and Blood

Minor: Child death

lulotteum's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

the inability to embrace who you truly are. i find this problem so tragic. the main character lies to others in order to convince himself that he‘s "normal".

but the human brain cannot shut down human feelings.

beautifully written. the book has lots of fascinating thoughts and ideas. however, some of the scenes where mishima writes about main character‘s "fantasies" are too graphic. but maybe it makes the book more honest and realistic….? 
i also would like to highlight the story of st. sebastian. wonderful reference.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Violence, Torture, and Cannibalism

i_worship_my_cat's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It's a very interesting read, and perfectly describes the experiences of alot of people in the queer community, and found myself relating to the protagonist, despite our time and cultural differences. However, the ending was

quiet abrupt, and I didn't feel like it answer the questions that were the main focus of the storyline, which kind of makes sense, in context. But I would still have liked to see more about the experiences and thoughts of the main characters further from where they ended.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, War, and Violence

samothraces's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cannibalism and Violence

Moderate: War